Hi,    What do you mean by " Baby Graves"?     If you are talking about the "Baby Graves" that belong to the Archdiocese you cannot put headstones on them because they are 'mass' graves - graves that hold a minimum of 6 babies and they are owned by the Archdiocese. Most of thes 'Baby Graves' are small plots within Archdiocesan Cemeteries - usually identified by a small monument or an Angel statue.    If a baby was buried in a privately owned grave within an Archdiocesan Cemetery they can have a headstone because that plot does not belong to the Archdiocese. -- Dee Kaelin Maialetti Philadelphia, Pa. ************** Listowner: KAELIN-L **************** Kaelin Ancestry Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kaelin/index.html **************** Genealogy Blog: Looking Into The Past http://lookingintothepast.blogspot.com/ **************** Cemetery Photography Blog: Perspectives http://perspectively.blogspot.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:01:23 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: PHILLY-ROOTS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 158 Today's Topics:      2. Baby Graves in Archdiocese Cemeteries (Michael J. O'Brien) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:34:43 -0400 From: "Michael J. O'Brien" <[email protected]> Subject: [Phly-Rts] Baby Graves in Archdiocese Cemeteries To: "philly-roots" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain;        charset="iso-8859-1" We are looking for others who have experienced difficulty placing a marker on a baby grave in the Archdiocesan cemeteries.  I have been told by some of the cemeteries that not allowing a marker has nothing to do with legality, but it is simply a policy.   In recent years the cemeteries now allow baby markers because of the insistence of parents (at a nominal fee). Thirty or 40 years ago this was not an option, and the Diocese continues to push back upon these requests. I'm looking for comments, suggestions from others who have run into this policy.  we have been trying to have something done for our daughter for over 10 years with no results.